Sherman Austin Quotes

And from the moment that we realized it was a terrorist attack, there isn't an agent or a support person in the FBI that wasn't committed to bringing to justice those who were responsible for this.

I was arrested in September 2011 and detained for nine months before I was found guilty in June 2012 under Ethiopia's overly broad Anti-Terrorism Proclamation, which ostensibly covers the 'planning, preparation, conspiracy, incitement and attempt' of terrorist acts.

An FBI agent ought to be able to surf the net and look for sites that instruct people how to make bombs.

We are not supposed to go out and kill all those we suspect to have committed a crime.

I know my dad is a big Internet freak, and he's been known to be a Wikileaker.

We will not rest until we see the suspects behind bars.

The chief al Qaeda recruiting tool is the net.

But we had - I think if you look at law enforcement 10 years ago, if you look at the challenges, the FBI was focused excessively on what was happening in the United States.

An element of virtually every national security threat and crime problem the FBI faces is cyber-based or facilitated. We face sophisticated cyber threats from state-sponsored hackers, hackers for hire, organized cyber syndicates, and terrorists.

I mean I've never been thrown in jail in New York or Los Angeles.

I never saw anything that would qualify as a criminal activity.

When Paul was arrested in Japan for having hash in his luggage, I thought he'd be out that night. But it became really serious stuff when he was kept in a cell. I became more fearful as the days went by.

The great thing about the Internet is that it allows people to find and consume music.

I'm sure they're investigating everyone who was in the area.

I think a lot of people get in trouble with the law.

Whistle-blowing and publishing should not be seen as a crime, and certainly not as terrorism.

We don't allow praise or support of terror groups and terror acts.

Twitter is providing a communication device, a loudspeaker for ISIS. If you are promoting violence and a call to violence. If you are promoting violence and a call to violence, you are providing material support. Twitter should be part of the solution. If not, they are part of the problem.

Attribution is as much an art as a science.

At the time of the Cole Bombing there were only 8 Arabic-speaking agents in the entire FBI.

The open network is like the open society- crime thrives, but so does creativity.

Before 9-11 Osama Bin Laden trained more terrorists than we trained FBI agents.

A liberal is a conservative who's been indicted.

Every new law enforcement measure in recent years has been met with increasingly sophisticated evasive techniques on the part of organized crime.

Identity theft has become an international business.